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WRITING A THESIS is probably a good thing to do; without it you get restless, nervous, and wrought up over trifles; with it you get nervous, wrought up over details and are in danger of going stir crazy in front of a typewriter. But since Harvard seems to attract the obsessive-achiever type, goal-oriented, accustomed to accomplishment, writing one is probably a good idea. Writing one in Tommy's Lunch is probably a losing cause but stir craziness is easier to combat than restlessness. Go out drinking (with friends)--the Casablanca for weeknights or Spaghetti Emporium for the afternoon...
...important, under your leadership, The Crimson constantly reminded us of the continual destruction wrought by our country in Southeast Asia. Though I believe you have romanticized the role of the NLF, you have been on target in your denunciation of the corrupt and repressive Thieu regime...
...nations are imperialistic. All nations are capable of working for freedom and justice. Returning democracy to Greece or preventing its overthrow in Chile are achievements that must be wrought by a partnership of a progressive government and an enlightened military. So while we work for the removal of Nixon from the White House, let us return ROTC to Harvard. John Hook...
Surrealism in this film is no gratuitous exercise, but a way of probing into the distoritions of mind wrought in a small boy's head by an uncontrollable world of misery. Bunuel has mellowed since he made this film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a clever comedy he made a year and a half ago, uses the same surreal imagery, but in a less direct way. That film was popular, witty, adroit; Los Olvidados is driving, frightening--caustic and political. People who thought The Discreet Charm was amusing, but who couldn't quite see where Bunuel was going, should...
...dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung Chi'i-ch'ang (1555-1636), rhapsodically called "the sheer marvels of brush and ink" wrought by the wen-jen or gentlemen scholars...